Take Your Best Shot

March 1, 2011

“In the wake of the epochal Stevie Ray Vaughan, overamplified `white guy’ Stratocaster blues has become one of the most overworked subgenres in pop music. But the contrast between Kubek’s hot-wired axe and Bnois King’s understated street-cool vocals puts this combo in a category of its own.” –Dan Emerson, Request The Texas blues tradition, as carved by such ax-wielders as Freddie King, T-Bone Walker and Lightnin’ Hopkins, is a spectacularly rich one. But the Smokin’ Joe Kubek Band has staked their claim in a country of pioneers with all the confidence, swagger and bluster of their heroes, hewing out their own diamond-hard hunk of the Texas rock. Take Your Best Shot is the band’s sixth record for Bullseye. Smokin’ Joe and Bnois King say it’s their best!